[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] The Illustrated ODbL

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

richard at weait.com wrote:
> I've attempted to illustrate ways to use the OpenStreetMap database under
> ODbL and comply with the ODbL obligations.

The box at the end of the "Produced Work" stream says: "Share Alike is 
required if database is derivative. Attribution is always required." - 
It should perhaps be made clear that Share Alike of the Produced Work is 
never required; only sharing the derivative database may be required.

Of course your illustration also glosses over a lot of open questions 
being discussed here, for example your illustrations clearly say that 
something that comes out of osm2pgsql is not already a derived database 
(we're not clear about this yet, the license seems to say otherwise!), 
and your illustrations also clearly say that tiles are not a database 
(another thing that is not clear).

Also, you're using the phrase "Convey Produced Work..." which, while 
proper English, seems to clash with the ODbL's own use of the word 
"Convey" (ODbL only ever uses the word for databases, not Produced 
Works), so maybe replace this by simply "publish"?

You say that the Produced Work can be put under any license; I used so 
say that as well but at the moment it looks like the Produced Work can 
never be under any "Free" license (such as CC-something, GFDL, ...) 
because these licenses do not allow you to add the extra "by the way, 
reverse engineering will cause X" clause that ODbL mandates.

These are, of course, all somewhat open issues that we hope to resolve 
one way or another.

Bye
Frederik

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